Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem ... of Michigan and a co-founder of the Star Spangled Music Foundation. Marc Leepson is an American journalist ...

Boiled down to its essence, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a song about survival ... because of its remarkable range between high and low notes. The song spans one-and-a-half octaves, so singers ...